Have trouble testing ball grid array (BGA) designs? Packaging and connector maker Advanced Interconnections Corp. (West Warwick, Rhode Island) says its now offering custom-engineered ...

Keysight’s Receiver Test Compliance Solution for Automotive Ethernet MutiGBASE-T1 now supports 2/5/10GBASE-T1. (Photo: Business Wire) Keysight’s custom test fixture couples noise to an active link to ...

Loaded board testing pays for itself by reducing field returns and bone-pile scrap. You seldom read an article about PCBs or semiconductors without encountering test-related phrases and acronyms. Cost ...

Folks from [Adafruit] are showing off a neat hack – USB host on RP2040, using the now-famous PIO peripheral. [Adafruit] builds a lot of RP2040 boards, and naturally, you gotta test them before you ...

Test and programming fixtures are great time-savers for anyone who needs to deal with more than a handful of PCBs. Instead of plugging in connectors (or awkwardly holding probe tips or wires) to ...

Simulating a lifetime of wear and tear on aircraft seats requires a scalable hardware and software solution to meet the needs of multiple and diverse test requirements. Each life-cycle test needs ...

Older folks may recall the famous Tektronix 576 and 577 curve tracers from half a century ago. A few of these have survived the decades and ended up in some lucky engineer’s home/work lab. Wow the ...

I noted in a 2005 column (see "Current compression test methods" under “Editor's Pick,” at top right) that there are three basic methods of loading a composite material test specimen in compression: ...